Whitney Port got very real about how giving birth vaginally “changes everything down there”
We can always count on Whitney Port to keep it 100%. This week, The Hills star brought some much-needed relief to new moms everywhere. How? She laid bare her anxieties about her post-baby body and got very real about giving birth vaginally. ICYMI, Port gave birth to her son Sonny in July. He’s the first child for Port and her husband, Tim Rosenman.
As part of her video series called “I Love My Baby But,” Whitney opened up about how pregnancy and birth changed her body. It’s the latest in a series of videos she’s made about life with a newborn. She described the recovery process from vagina birth as “painful” and “uncomfortable.”
According to Port, vaginal delivery and its impact on the body is “something that’s really not discussed,” but should be. And her honesty is giving us life.
“[H]aving a vaginal delivery changes everything down there and that’s just something that’s really not discussed. Like what it’s actually going to do and that there’s a really long recovery afterwards,” Port said. “It’s painful and uncomfortable and along with having to take care of a newborn, you also have a whole other situation to take care of.”
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The fashion designer also opened up about her post-baby sex life with husband Tim Rosenman.
“You’re pushing, for me, an eight-pound baby out of a little teeny hole and…I was obviously concerned about what that was going to do to our sex life,” Port said. “If it would feel the same, if [Tim] would feel the same way. I thought a lot about if [Tim was] attracted to me, and that was hard because I was never insecure about that before.”
Of course, Rosenman assured her that’s not the case at all.
We’re so grateful to Port for speaking so openly about a difficult topic that so many mothers go through.
